PUBLICATIONS

New Zealand Tablet, 2 March 1911, Page 397

PUBLICATIONS

The latest publications of the Australian Catholic Truth Society are The Story of St. Teresa by Emily Buchanan, and Stories in Honor of Our Lady of Good Counsel by Winnie Walsh. The former is an abridged life of St. Teresa told in a manner suitable for children, but which may be read with advantage and profit by grown-up people. In "the second we have two interesting stories, ' The Conquest ' and ' The Awakening,' in which instructive lessons are conveyed. Once again jbhere has come to hand that excellent college magazine, Our Alma Mater, the of the students of St. Ignatius' College, Riverview. It is difficult to indicate which feature of this excellent periodical to admire most, the letterpress, illustrations, printing, paper, and general get up being all that could be desired. The greater part of the contents of this number is devoted to a record of the work of the students in the classroom and their successes at public examinations and on the athletic field. A feature of the magazine is the number of illustrations, which are admirably executed. The frontispiece is a beautifully colored picture of St. Ignatius' College, whilst another interesting illustration is a full-pago photograph of

a portion of a recent earthquake record (actual size). The magazine contains much of interest not alone to students and their friends, but also to others, for it gives outsiders a good idea of the excellence of the education imparted at this leading scat of learning. ' .< The Catholic Who's Who has now come to be regarded as filling a long-felt want, and one wonders how our coreligionists did without such a useful and necessary publication until that well known firm, Messrs. Burns and Oates, conceived the happy idea a few years ago of bringing out such a volume. In doing so they have placed the millions of Catholics scattered throughout the Englishspeaking world under a deep debt of obligation. The publication is edited by that well-known litterateur, Sir E. C. Burnand, who, in the- brief preface to the issue for the current year, tells us that 1.910 had been an annus memoraills and an annus mirabilis. It was sadly memorable, as its first note was one of mourning for King Edward VII., the Peacemaker. A jubilant note was permitted to us when the Catholic Church was fullv represented at the consecration of Westminster Cathedral, and then followed the revision of the anti-Catholic portion of the Coronation Oath. The current issue has been enlarged and improved in many respects, and as a result the information has been extended in the direction of giving the addresses of, nearly all the names to be found in the volume As an appendix there is given a list of subjects of George V. who hold papal honors, a necrology for 1910, and a most useful monthly chronicle dealing with matters of Catholic interest for the past year. His Grace the Archbishop of Westminster gives his impressions of the great International Eucharistic Congress held at Montreal last year. As an evidence, of how the work has been brought up to date there is in the Chronicle a list oi Catholic Members of Parliament,, who were elected for English constituencies last December. London; Messrs. Burns and Oates, pp. 441, cloth, price, 3s 6d.